Graduate Medical Education

Practice Based Learning and Improvement

Residents as Teachers

Teaching activities may include, but are not limited to, clinical teaching, role modeling, and interactive workshops. Program directors must document inclusion of a formal teaching curriculum and assessment of resident and fellow performance (e.g., how does the resident/fellow give feedback to a family/patient). This documentation should be evident in the curriculum and in the semi-annual evaluation of the resident/fellow performance.

The role of teaching in the continuing education of physicians is recognized as important. The ideal clinical teacher exhibits many attributes that will make then effective teachers. Program directors should assure that their curricula and evaluation mechanisms can document these attributes. Please click here to find what others have determined to be the desired behaviors for teachers.

Here are a number of other resources that may also be useful to you in the development and implementation of program's approach to competency and outcomes assessment and improvement. The information contained in these approaches reflects those undertaken by your UMMC's colleagues, as well as others in your profession to develop and implement the Practice Based Learning and Improvement competency within their program or institution in the following areas:

UMMC's Anesthesiology program conducts a resident retreat. The chief residents, program director, and faculty, including the Chairman developed the agenda and selected presenters. Residents participate in discussions and other learning activities related to teaching skills, time management, and team-building exercises. For more information, please contact the UMMC's GME Department.

UMMC's Internal Medicine program holds an annual educational retreat for rising senior and rising chief residents. During the day-long session, residents participate in workshops on enhancing their skills in a variety of areas, including giving effective feedback, making work rounds work more effectively, teaching medical students, encouraging professionalism during their daily work routine, leading inpatient teams, infusing evidence based medicine into their clinical activities, ensuring effective sign-outs and hand-offs, and enhancing teamwork. In addition, the program runs workshops throughout the year on a variety of topics, e.g., applying for fellowships, writing your academic CV, securing a hospitalist position, enhancing your efficiency, etc. We have implemented an Boot Camp to teach residents research design skills and encourage them to engage in research projects. For more information, please contact the UMMC's GME Department.

The University of California Irvine has a resource for the development of teaching skills http://www.residentteachers.com/

RESOURCES:

ACGME has provided a Facilitator's Guide, "An Introduction to Competency-based Residency Education,"©ACGME (April, 2006; B. Joyce, Ph.D), and a Virtual Program Director's Handbook. You may click on the document name to access these resources, or may visit the ACGME website at www.acgme.org.

Common Program Requirements and Common Program Requirements for One Year Fellowships, both effective 7/1/11, are available at the ACGME website. ACGME also has provided a Program Director's Guide to the Common Program Requirements that became effective 7/1/11.

UMMC has provided a Program Director Guide with examples of program, rotation, and level specific goals and objectives as well as sample evaluation tools for evaluating resident/fellow performance, faculty performance, and program effectiveness.

This page was last updated on: January 31, 2013.